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By Wind and Iron: Naval Campaigns in the Champlain Valley, 1665–1815 (Spirituality in Education)

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For more than 150 years, the natural invasion route along the waterways of the Champlain and Richelieu valleys into northeastern North The usa was once a few of the most fiercely contested in the history of the continent. Whether the French and their Indian allies attacking British forts and settlements all the way through the Seven Years’ War, the American Continentals striking north into Canada all the way through the American Revolution, or the British battling French and later American forces in these wars and the War of 1812, it was once clear to policy makers in Quebec, London, Paris, Philadelphia, and Washington that whoever controlled this corridor and its lakes and rivers, controlled the heart of the continent. In By Wind and Iron: Naval Campaigns in the Champlain Valley, 1665–1815, Michael G. Laramie details the maritime history of this region from the first French fortifications along the Richelieu River in the late seventeenth century through the tremendous American victory over the British at the Battle of Plattsburgh on Lake Champlain in 1814. The usage of period letters, journals, and other primary source materials, the writer examines the northeastern waterways and their tributaries within the framework of the soldiers and sailors who faced the perils of the campaigns, at the same time as at the same time clarifying the key role played by this region in the greater struggle for North The usa and American independence.
            In enhance of the narrative, the book also contains appendices that come with after action reports from more than a few fleet commanders, tables of fleet strengths, additional battle maps, a glossary, and a dictionary of lake warships with notes on vessel types, typical armament, construction, deployment, and fates.

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